Women, taboos observed by, 20, 25, 26; dances of, 2628, 64; employed to sow fields on the principle of homoeopathic magic, 28; plough as a rain-charm, 70; worshipped by ancient Germans, 97; married to gods, 142145; tabooed at menstruation and childbirth, 207210, 603; not allowed to mention husbands names, 249; influence of corn-spirit on, 410; thought to have no soul, 497; ceremonies performed by, to rid fields of vermin, 531; put to death in the character of goddesses in Mexico, 589; impregnated by the sun, 603; dread of menstruous, 603

, barren, charms to procure offspring, 14; sterilising influence ascribed to, 29, 137; thought to conceive through eating nuts of a palm-tree, 119; fertilised by trees, 119, 120; thought to blight the fruits of the earth, 137; fertilised by being struck with a certain stick, 581

, pregnant, forbidden to spin or twist ropes, 21; not to loiter in the doorways where there are, 22; employed to fertilise crops and fruit-trees, 28

Zeus, rain made by, 71; the priest of, makes rain by an oak branch, 77; mimicked by King Salmoneus, 77; marriage with Demeter at Eleusis, 142; and Hera, 143, 159; and Dione, 151, 165; as god of the oak, the rain, and the thunder, 159; his oracular oak at Dodona, 159; prayed to for rain, 159; Greek kings called, 159; surnamed Thunderbolt, 159; his resemblance to Donar, Thor, Perun, and Perkunas, 160161; the grave of, 265; his oracular cave on Mount Ida, 280; his intrigue with Persephone, 388; said to have transferred the sceptre to young Dionysus, 388; father of Dionysus by Demeter, 389; his appearance to Hercules in the shape of a ram, 500; and Danae, 602